I texted over 35 students what is the hardest thing about following Christ. Read their honest responses:
-Staying consistent with it and sharing it with others
-I know it was a lot easier to follow Him at camp, then on my own
-Having faith that He exists, w/o Him humanly existing in the present
-Hanging out with people who don’t understand your relationship with God and just being in high school
-Feeling guilty
-Trying to do the right thing when most people don’t
-Being around someone who is being negative which can rub off on me and make me not think of God as much
-Thinking I’m not good enough for him to love me.
-Staying true to it everyday
-Giving Him the times and credit He deserves
-Knowing through the good and bad and knowing that there is a plan through everything
-Constant pressure to sin and do things everyone else does
-Not to be angry at God when something is hard in your life
-Not giving into temptations and distractions we are faced with daily
-Not having time to go deeper with God- busy
-Not understanding why bad things happen, and temptation
-I’m not satisfying Him or doing enough
-It’s hard to live for Him and not myself
YL wants to be alongside students as they discover who they are in Christ and try to follow Him.
So we use the analogy of a dog fight with students. Two dogs are fighting-which dog will win? 1. The one of self and the world desires (or) 2. The one that is your relationship with Christ. Which ever dog you feed the most wins the fight. So we are challenging our students to feed the dog that is the relationship with Christ by attending- YL events, small groups- campaigners, attending a local church, talking with God, being honest with friends and staying connected to their YL leader, reading the Bible, etc.
Are you feeling distant in your relationship with Christ?
Which dog are you feeding more?
